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[ xxi] essity of agreement to to make Laws valid, he has asserted also, “that neither the divine positive Laws, nor the Laws of Nature, had their rise from the agreement of men,” &c. Book I. c. 6. §. z.

Now his observation is certainly true as far as it relates to the rise or origin of such Laws; for the Laws, being divine, must necessarily have “had their rise” from God; but yet this does not set aside